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Since the availability of water in Nagarjuna Sagar was much less than the total requirement of 9.914 TMC to be met, the KRMB had decided to draw water from the Srisailam project to meet the indent.

The meeting is being viewed as an occasion laden with significance as it aims to resolving long-standing issues pertaining to the State reorganisation Act, 2014.

AP government had cleared dues to the tune of Rs 4 crores to the Godavari Board and 2.4 crores to Krishna river Board.

The KRMB has planned for installation of nine more telemetry systems for stepping up the monitoring mechanism under the two joint projects - Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar.

Telangana had alleged that AP had made an unauthorised drawl of over 4 tmc of water from the NSP tail-pond in April without the prior consent of the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB).

The project level has already fallen below 505 feet.

The writ petition challenged GO no 34 of 2021 on hydel power generation by the State. He defended the order and the stand of Telangana.

Both the states had responded positively with an emphatic 'yes' on the issue of clearing the dues owed to the boards. But their assurances die not yield funds.

The salaries component alone would be in the order of Rs 6.05 crores while Rs 4.89 crores would go for payment of allowances.

K Chandrashekhar Rao said the Congress government had failed on all fronts

The NSP tail pond has a storage capacity of 7 tmc. It is a multipurpose reservoir 21 km downstream of the main project. It is meant for storing the water released from the project for power generation.

The AP Re-organization Act, 2014, mandates that the successor states -Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, provide necessary funds to KRMB for its functioning besides the staff salaries and allowances.

The three-member committee of the River Management Board, which met here, discussed the drinking water needs of both states and the utilisation of 80 tmc of water allotted to them in October.

This could have been utilised for filling as many as 19 reservoirs under the project. He also wondered why the State representatives had abstained from the three-member committee meeting of the KRMB two days ago.

But certain structural issues observed in the project have to be addressed on permanent basis on the 57-year-old major irrigation project.

In addition to the regular maintenance works, the NDSA team that visited the project some time ago, had also identified certain shortcomings in the maintenance.

The KRMB wanted the State to release the required quantum of water to Andhra Pradesh from March 7

In a letter addressed to the State Engineer-in-Chief (irrigation), KRMB made it clear that no decision can be taken by it as no consensus was arrived on the issue

The State government was supplying adequate power to meet the energy demand and no official power cuts would be imposed by the government, said Revanth Reddy

The KRMB also rejected its plea to consider 18.70 tmc of water (saved by the State from its previous water year share) as carryover part of water in the Nagarajuna Sagar Project